Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a disorder affecting the motor neurons—nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement. These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles cannot ...

A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first clinical study of its kind, Japanese scientists said. There is currently ...

A straight lumbar spine is more likely to stress the disc ... increased anterior shear could be linked to the degeneration of facets and the development of listhesis. Further, since the compressive ...